Customer Reviews

Konica Minolta magicolor 2350 EN Color Laser Printer

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I own a 2300DL and just bought the 2350EN. This is a large enough leap in print quality for me to be happy I upgraded. The older 2300DL was a good color laser and worth the price but this new model is significantly better. My first photo print was really impressive. I would say it was so near the quality of my Epson Photo 780 that I was surprised. Unfortunately Color lasers cannot print on true photo paper. Using plain paper on both produced very similar, and very good, photos. The printer takes its time to start up but its a small price to pay. I can definitely recommend this printer to anyone looking for a color laser.

After doing a lot of research i finally went ahead and bought the Konica Minolta 2350 laser printer. Im glad i made the right choice cause the results are simply amazing! The colors simply jump right at you, they are so vivid and bright. Showed the color results to my friends and they thought it was from a photo printer! Im so happy to have finally gotten rid of my cheap ink-jet printer that was nothing but a pain due to the quick drying inks and the high cost of cartridges that would dry out in a month. The downside to this laser printer is dull status lcd with no backlight and the options menu could be confusing since it has tons of features. I recommend comparing this laser printer with the ones that cost twice as much and you'll see what a great value it is.

This Magicolor 2350EN is a dandy! It installed easily without any problems and prints beautifully. It's also fast and has a much smaller footprint than any HP color laser I've seen. I love it.

If you are in a tight budget like me, this is the one you want to get for your home office or small office, installation was so easy and color looks so great even with photos, highly recommand...

I've had my MagiColor 2350EN for about a year now. I haven't had any of the bad experiences mentioned by other people so I thought I put in my review to balance out the overall picture a bit.
I bought my printer brand new, not refurbished, from Amazon.
Menu is no more difficult than most equipment I have worked with, it is just that there are so many options, it is multi-leveled. So what I did is print out the Menu Map Layout (built-in function) and stick it on the front of the printer. Now I can navigate easily.
I print everything through the ethernet, never had a problem. I am running XP if that makes any difference.
Paper goes through fine, I print on regular paper and 110lb paper, letter size and post card sizes, all fine!
Color toner is expensive... but I haven't seen any other printers with cheap color toners.
I've contacted tech support 3 times, found them to be very helpful.
In fact, I am looking to buy my second one soon.

We've had this printer for 2 years. The end product it good but it has been very unreliable for several months now. At times, for no apparent reason, it will print out an error message and non-sensical jibberish. It also seems to work very hard and slow for even 1 page: makes a very noisy clicking sound 3 or 4 times before it prints anything and then again for each page. I've called Konica Minolta several times, changed the driver, uninstalled & reinstalled it from Windows multiple times but nothing changes.

We bought a monochrome, multifunction Brother machine a few months ago and we like it so much, I think we'll buy a color to replace the Konica.

Yes, those reviews with 5 stars have to be users that haven't had it for very long. After using for a year, I really wish I had not chosen the 2350EN. It crashes at least twice a week. I have had to remove all traces from my network and reinstall at least 5 times. If someone makes the mistake of turning it off for the night, you have to reboot the entire network before it will print. It jams constantly if the paper weight and job dimensions are not perfect. I called sales before buying and they said the printer would run standard postcard sizes. It won't (tech support said so) It will only run "Japanese postcard sizes". So if you want to print addresses on your postcards or make your own postcards from your pictures forget it (or buy special size paper). Their product page says that it will handle 65lb card stock. It won't. Tech support explained (after I bought it) that they actually use a grams per meter rating to determine that weight of the paper (not the bond weight or pound rating that is on their public spec. sheet). The actual weight tolerated is way below the usual 65lb card stock papers that are available from the major office supply centers. DON'T DO THIS TO YOURSELF..CHOOSE SOMETHING ELSE!!

I have owned this printer for about 2.5 years- and it is a bitter sweet relationship. When it works well, it is great. However, it is very temperamental and can really make you want to pull your hair out:
1. ethernet port never worked- ended up using USB port
2. Doesn't work on every USB port on my computers- had to play around and remember which one it works on
3. while printing powerpoint slides or documents, for no reason at all it will set off an error page and then I get about 50 pages of ASCII error messages...wasting my ink and paper!
4. locks up a lot and the fan is loud enough to wake up the house. won't turn off until you reboot

I bought this to avoid spending $$$ at print shops for business docs...but the amount of babysitting I have to do to print docs is a real time drain. I have struggled so much that I have been late on proposals and lost business because it went into error mode.

Aside from problems, the print quality is great. It is easy to operate. It's just unpredictable and temperamental.

I've also had this printer for about a year, and use it exclusively to print digital photos. It has been a excellant performer, both through parallel and ethernet connection. I haven't seen any paper roll problems, using all types of paper including transparencies and matte photo paper. Toner does seem pricey, but it doesn't dry out like the ink in my old Epson photo printer did, so I figure it's a net savings.

I bought this laser model about 2004 and had problems with it from the outset. I got pages and pages of ASCII stuff sometimes at the start of a job and sometimes mid-way into a job.
Minolta Support insisted I needed to get forensic diagnostic software to determine the problem with my computer. My computer was brand new at the same time as the printer.
The saving grace of this machine is the quality of the output particularly on photos. Skin tones are not too good but probably as good as an inkjet on plain paper.
Since OS X Lion the machine is better behaved but it will still paper jam on startup and throw an ASCII tantrum if it feels like. Tons of complaints on US reviews too.